page_title: Albert Kish
section_title: Life and career
hierarchical_section_title: Albert Kish / Life and career
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph taken by Stephen Bulger at his gallery
context_page_description: Albert Kish was a Hungarian-Canadian film-director and editor.
context_section_description: Albert was born in Eger, Hungary in 1937, the son of Olga Weisz, a clothing store manager and Albert Kiss a customs officer. His studies in Hungary were interrupted by the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, after which he went to Austria. While in Vienna, he saw for the first time, films from the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) which greatly impressed him. He arrived in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in March 1957 with Bela Balazs's book, "Film Kultura" under his arm.
  For several years he worked in the private film and advertising industries in Montreal and Toronto as a still photographer, cameraman, editor and later, as an independent filmmaker.
  In 1964 he joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Toronto as a film editor, and within a period of three years, was promoted to senior film editor.
  He joined the National Film Board of Canada in Montreal, in 1967 for a long and distinguished career during which time he has directed and edited over 30 films.,
  In 1973, he received a senior arts grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, and spent 4 months at the Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest Hungary, and another 4 months in Hollywood, California. 
  
  He has maintained a lifelong interest in photography. His photographs have appeared in several publications and exhibitions. Some of his photographs can be viewed at the Stephen Bulger Gallery
  After his retirement from the NFB in 1997, he traveled extensively in China, Korea and Europe.
  In October 2015, he died of cancer at the Toronto General Hospital. He was with his wife of 21 years, Katalin Futo. He had two sons, Bert and Colin from a previous marriage, and two grandsons, Aris and Ryan.
caption: Albert Kish at the Stephen Bulger Gallery, 2013
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